Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Planning Placement

Job Details

Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Planning Placement

Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You’ll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:

• Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
• Communication (written & verbal)
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Networking
• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)

Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students. You will join IPUnite, GSK’s community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.

The Role

Overview of the Department

WREF in GSK is a global function with approx. 200 internal staff supported by a network of over 2,000 contract staff around the world. WREF’s portfolio includes 259 sites (35.7m square feet), across 61 countries comprising 3.7m square feet and a budget of over £153m.

The Workplace, Real Estate & Facilities (WREF) organization at GSK has undergone a significant transformation, realigning its strategic priorities to focus on creating inspiring, people-centric, tech-enabled, and innovation-led workplaces. With a global impact that touches the daily lives of approximately 30,000 employees—nearly 40% of GSK’s workforce—WREF plays a pivotal role in shaping high-value, functional spaces that foster health, engagement, and productivity.

Our mission is to create the world’s healthiest, most inspiring workplaces, where performance and well-being are seamlessly integrated. We are committed to our three strategic priorities: Business Excellence, Experience & Wellbeing, and Corporate Accountability, each vital to the success of WREF and GSK's global goals.

WREF’s key activities include:

• The strategic planning of the Real Estate portfolio to keep up with market trends and ensure our facilities are in the right locations to support our business.
• Collaborating with our Facilities Management suppliers to enable our WREF sites to deliver to our customer’s needs.
• Providing environments that are safe, legal, compliant, and sustainable.

Key Placement Activities

• Support the development and implementation of workplace experience initiatives aimed at improving employee engagement and well-being.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business excellence, ensuring efficiency and value in workplace operations.
• Assist in the planning and execution of sustainability and corporate accountability initiatives, contributing to our goal of creating safe, responsible, and environmentally sound work environments.
• Contribute to research and analysis projects focused on emerging trends in real estate, workplace technology, and workplace design.
• Gain exposure to GSK’s global workplace strategy, with the opportunity to support projects across multiple sites and regions.
• Participate in team meetings, provide updates on project progress, and present findings to senior leadership.

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:

1. Eligibility Form
2. World of GSK Online Assessment
3. Written Assessment
4. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

About GSK

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, itʼs also about making GSK a place where people can thrive.

We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.